{"id":693968,"date":"2022-06-10T08:58:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T08:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=245908"},"modified":"2022-06-10T08:58:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T08:58:25","slug":"moral-crusade-or-class-interest-does-the-us-working-class-have-a-material-interest-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/10\/moral-crusade-or-class-interest-does-the-us-working-class-have-a-material-interest-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Crusade or Class Interest? Does the US Working Class Have a Material Interest in\u00a0Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to find a single example outside of revolutions and the national liberation struggles of the 20th Century when wars were fought in the interest of the working class. Ukraine is no exception.\u00a0 When ruling classes fight each other it\u2019s the working class that does the dying and pays the bills. Wars can only be made when nationalism, fascism or liberalism overcome class consciousness and solidarity. If this argument sounds familiar it\u2019s because it has been a staple of working-class politics since at least WWI.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/10\/moral-crusade-or-class-interest-does-the-us-working-class-have-a-material-interest-in-ukraine\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/10\/moral-crusade-or-class-interest-does-the-us-working-class-have-a-material-interest-in-ukraine\/\">Moral Crusade or Class Interest? Does the US Working Class Have a Material Interest in\u00a0Ukraine?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/10\/moral-crusade-or-class-interest-does-the-us-working-class-have-a-material-interest-in-ukraine\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to find a single example outside of revolutions and the national liberation struggles of the 20th Century when wars were fought in the interest of the working class. Ukraine is no exception.\u00a0 When ruling classes fight each other it\u2019s the work&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693969,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693968\/revisions\/693969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}